TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
First published in November 2015 After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those Read More…
On February 7, 2014, the BBC published a transcript of a bugged phone conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. The media reports that followed the leak distracted audiences from the actual content of the phone call, focusing instead on Nuland’s crass statement, “Fuck the EU.” Read More…
Word to the wise: when you play a rigged game in a mobster-run casino, don’t expect to walk away with all your winnings. But you already knew that, didn’t you? Regardless of whether he knew it or not, Apple CEO Tim Cook just learned that lesson the hard way. In 2013 the European Commission began Read More…
“An Interesting transformation for the network journalist: the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter’s career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.” The Powers that Be – David Halberstam It is no surprise to anyone that today’s political ideals have struggled to remain in the field of Read More…
The rise of the meta-criminal Is the NSA manipulating the stock market? Trevor Timm of the Electronic Freedom Frontier dug up a very interesting nugget. It was embedded in the heralded December 2013 White House task force report on spying and snooping. Under Recommendations, #31, section 2, he found this: “Governments should not use their offensive Read More…
After such a long wait, the LulzBoat officially set sail once again to pirate the open data waters of the world’s internet servers; this time under the banner: #AntiGovernment. Hacker “Mw@0day” of LulzSec Global produced what should be considered one of the most interesting and relevant hacks of recent time, continuing to ante up to Read More…